Default customizer colors aren’t displayed outside of the preview

I ended up using default stylesheet rules, which I had removed along the way, and then essentially what happens is when the user modifies the colors using the customizer it overrides the stylesheet rules.

I feel like it’s a bit sloppy doing it this way but it does achieve the desired result. From what I can see, though, there’s no other alternative for the default rules to be enabled because as I understand it the theme customizer writes the user’s values to the DB & that doesn’t occur until individual settings are modified.